WEBSTER, Mass. — An expensive electric wheelchair was stolen from a woman's home in broad daylight.
Surveillance video shows a medical van pulling up and removing the $16,000 wheelchair.
But Elena Munoz, who owns the wheelchair, says the chair's distributor did not send anyone out.
Munoz said the wheelchair was sitting in the common area inside their multi-family home while she was out.
When she came back home, it was gone.
"They constructed it for me, for me to be sitting inside," said Munoz, who has been relying on the customized wheelchair for years.
She says after a serious car accident nearly 20 years ago, it's the only way she can get around.
And just like that, it was gone.
Munoz says this surveillance image shows a van pulling up and removing the chair from the lobby of her apartment building while she was out.
"I’ve never seen that man or that company," Munoz said.
After returning home to find it missing, she even contacted the wheelchair company to see if there had been a misunderstanding.
"I contacted the companies that are listed under my transportation that have previously came to get it, but I know what the vans look like those vans look like those companies," she said.
Munoz told Boston 25 News that the company told her no one was scheduled to pick it up.
"I just said I wanted to know if you guys took it back for some reason. They said, 'Absolutely not. Report it stolen!'" she said.
Webster Police posted an update Friday, saying that the wheelchair had been found.
The missing wheelchair has been located. We will post an update once we are able to.
— Webster Police Mass (@websterpd) February 8, 2019
Meantime, Webster Police say they're investigating this as a theft as of now, and they're considering it suspicious.
The white van had green markings with Rhode Island plates. They say a known company with a similar-looking logo told police it wasn't their van.
"The point is somebody had the brazen audacity to come into my house and just take my wheel chair!" Munoz said.
She said a bike was stolen from that same area a week ago. Residents there have since locked the front door to the common area.
Anyone with information about that van in the photographs is being asked to call police.
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